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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin rāmus (“branch”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ramus (plural rami)
- A small spray or twig.
- (biology) A branching, as of nerves or blood vessels.
- (ornithology) The stem of a barb of a feather, from which the barbules extend.
- (anatomy) A bony projection, particularly of the jaw, but also in the groin area, both subject to the maturing process of symphysis.
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Latin
Etymology
Probably from Proto-Italic *wrādmos, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂dmos, from *wréh₂ds (“root”). Cognate with rādīx.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
rāmus m (genitive rāmī); second declension
- branch, bough, limb
Declension
Second-declension noun.
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Descendants
References
- “ramus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ramus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ramus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the twigs are shooting out, spreading: rami late diffunduntur
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 513
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Lithuanian
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rem- (“to rest”).[1] Compare Latvian rāms (“calm, tranquil”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
ramùs m (stress pattern: 4) [2]
- calm
- ramus miegas[2] - calm sleep
- ramus oras[2] - calm weather
- rami jūra[2] - a calm sea
- rami gatvė[2] - a tranquil street
Inflection
Non-pronominal forms (neįvardžiuotinės formos) of ramus
Pronominal forms (įvardžiuotinės formos) of ramus
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References
- ^ “ramus”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 “ramus” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.